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Friday, September 30, 2022

Classics Illustrated: The Bitmap File  by Harlan Kane

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:21 am

Related Log24 posts

See Vox Lux and Mathieu Omega.

Related book cover

Thursday, September 29, 2022

The 4×6 Problem*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:03 pm

The exercise posted here on Sept. 11, 2022, suggests a 
more precisely stated problem . . .

The 24 coordinate-positions of the 4096 length-24 words of the 
extended binary Golay code G24 can be arranged in a 4×6 array
in, of course, 24! ways.

Some of these ways are more geometrically natural than others.
See, for instance, the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis.
What is the size of the largest subcode C of G24 that can be 
arranged in a 4×6 array in such a way that the set  of words of C 
is invariant under the symmetry group of the rectangle itself, i.e. the
four-group of the identity along with horizontal and vertical reflections
and 180-degree rotation.

Recent Log24 posts tagged Bitspace describe the structure of
an 8-dimensional (256-word) code in a 4×6 array that has such
symmetry, but it is not yet clear whether that "cube-motif" code
is a Golay subcode. (Its octads are Golay, but possibly not all its
dodecads; the octads do not quite generate the entire code.) 
Magma may have an answer, but I have had little experience in
its use.

* Footnote of 30 September 2022.  The 4×6 problem is a
special case of a more general symmetric embedding problem.
Given a linear code C and a mapping of C to parts of a geometric
object A with symmetry group G, what is the largest subcode of C
invariant under G? What is the largest such subcode under all
such mappings from C to A?

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Bitspace Note

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:28 pm

Update of 5:20 AM ET on Sept. 29. 2022 —

The octads of the [24, 8, 8] cube-motif code
can be transformed by the permutation below
into octads recognizable, thanks to the Miracle
Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis, as
belonging to the Golay code.

The Madness of Art

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:09 am

The title is by Henry James.*

For examples, see the Sept. 19 webpage below . . .

and, in this  journal, posts from that same date now tagged Cube Codes.

*
 

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

The Rockmore Files

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:53 am

For connoisseurs of bullshit, from The New Yorker  yesterday —

Annals of Inquiry

“A Trip to Infinity” and the Delicate Art
of the Math Documentary

One of the most captivating concepts in mathematics
is now on Netflix.

Monday, September 26, 2022

And …

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 10:00 pm

"Remember, remember
the eighth of  September."

Update of 6 AM Sept. 27:

A search for related material
on The Eighth of  September 
yields a Pablo Neruda poem 

and a Barbara Stevens Sullivan
novel, both with that title.

Also by Sullivan . . .

See as well a Log24 post from 2016, "The Mystery of O,"
on June 29, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. 

A Chevron for Pynchon: The Maltese V

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:31 pm

Wordwork

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:39 am

A title for Eliot

A  Balera  for Heisenberg.

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Woodwork

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:21 pm

"The actor Nick Offerman, himself an accomplished woodworker 
and a member of Ms. Hiller’s legion of admirers, called her an
'Obi-Wan Kenobi level master.'"

The New York Times  this evening, obituary by Clay Risen
for Nancy Hiller.

Related woodwork note —

"There and back again."

Marvelette Comics

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:29 pm

From a search in this journal for Postman . . .

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Blue Note for Doctor Sax

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:08 pm

From posts now tagged Blue Note

Nine and Sixteen: In Search of Common Ground

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:01 am

Friday, September 23, 2022

Annals of Historical Fiction

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:16 pm

In memory of historical novelist Hilary Mantel, who reportedly
died yesterday, two images dealing with this year's Sept. 11 —

The image from Rome was suggested by yesterday's Dürer post and
by the year 1514 in the life of Thomas Cromwell, Mantel's main topic.

Raiders of the Lost Archive … The Jung Genizah

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:41 am

Jung’s four-diamond figure from
Aion — a symbol of the self –

Jung's four-diamond figure showing transformations of the self as Imago Dei

     For those who prefer the Ed Wood approach —

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Affine Dürer

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:21 pm

The previous post's image illustrating the
ancient Lo Shu  square as an affine transformation
suggests a similar view of Dürer's square.

That view illustrates the structural principle
underlying the diamond theorem


De Colores

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:47 am

See as well . . .

Three-color patterns from 1964,
  rendered as shades of grey —

A rather different approach —

The Tag in the Bag

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:43 am

The above image is from a tweet dated Jan. 11, 2018.

Related material from this journal — That date, in posts
now tagged In the Bag. Those posts are followups to
a remark by Nabokov:

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Modal Obit

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:14 pm


Related meditation . . .
 

Modal Logic.

Outside the White Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:01 pm

      

"Remember, remember the fifth of November"

  — Hugo Weaving in 2005

"If it's Tuesday . . ."

Meanwhile, in the World of Meta . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:13 am

The previous post's  Data Meets Meta  tale continues —

Always Going Home

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:09 am

There's a world where I can go
Tell my secrets to
In my room
In my room (in my room)… 

— Beach Boys, 1963

Data, not Meta.

Heist Flick

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:04 am

"A good public narrative can, at the best of times,
transform an art theft into a lucky break for the gallery."

The Walrus , Sept. 1, 2022 

From a search in this  journal for Goya —

Verse without Words (Title via Kandinsky)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:59 am
 

F8 D8

See as well some related posts.

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Raiders of the Lost Space… Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:22 pm

From "Raiders of the Lost Space," Sept. 11, 2022 —

'Codes from Symmetry Groups,' Cheng and Sloane, 1989

A related technique appears in a 1989 paper by Cheng and Sloane
that I saw for the first time today:

'Codes from Symmetry Groups,' Cheng and Sloane, 1989

Motif-Space Updates

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:55 am

A linear code of length 24, dimension 8, and minimum weight 8
(a "[24, 8, 8] code") that was discussed in recent posts tagged
Bitspace might, viewed as a vector space, be called "motif space."

Yesterday evening's post "From a Literature Search for Binary [24, 8, 8] Codes
has been updated.  A reference from that update —

Computer Science > Information Theory

arXiv:cs/0607074 (cs)

[Submitted on 14 Jul 2006]

On Construction of the (24,12,8) Golay Codes

Xiao-Hong PengPaddy Farrell

Download PDF

Two product array codes are used to construct the (24, 12, 8) binary Golay code through the direct sum operation. This construction provides a systematic way to find proper (8, 4, 4) linear block component codes for generating the Golay code, and it generates and extends previously existing methods that use a similar construction framework. The code constructed is simple to decode.

Comments: To appear in IEEE Trans. on Information Theory Vol. 24 No. 8
Subjects: Information Theory (cs.IT)
Cite as: arXiv:cs/0607074 [cs.IT]

From Peng and Farrell, 2006 —

Monday, September 19, 2022

Anniversary at Tiffany’s

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:02 pm

From a Literature Search for Binary [24, 8, 8] Codes

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:34 pm

For one example of a binary [24, 8, 8] code, see other bitspace posts.

It is not clear whether that example is a subcode of the Golay code.

See also 

http://www.codetables.de/BKLC/
Tables.php?q=2&n0=1&n1=256&k0=1&k1=256

and  

http://www.codetables.de/BKLC/BKLC.php?q=2&n=12&k=8 .

Update of 3:22 AM ET on 20 September 2022 —

Update of  3:44 AM ET 20 September 2022 —

Another relevant document:

The Hymn

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:31 am

"Like fairytales come true . . ." — LaLa Deaton 

"It can happen to you . . ." — Frank Sinatra

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